LISTEN | 50,000 trash bags collected for his 50th birthday Updated
Brent Lindeque
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It took just six months for Joburger Sean Williams and his team to collect and recycle over 50,000 bags of trash to celebrate his 50th birthday!
Sean Williams
A Joburg man set himself a goal to collect – and recycle – 50,000
bags of trash before his 50th birthday and exactly one day before his
big day… he did it!
But the story behind Sean Williams and his incredible clean-up
initiative started with Lovemore Robson - is also one of friendship,
determination and good things.
The environmentalists have become heroes
in the north of Johannesburg as the team leading a clean-up revolution
Launched in November 2020, the
Live Life Always project, which has created job opportunities for 10 otherwise unemployed Diepsloot residents, has collected over
27,835 bags of litter, which amounts to over
181 tons of waste.
The program is not only supporting families who have been tremendously affected by the lockdown, but is highlighting the devastating impact waste plastic and litter has on our planet.
“My passion has always been about saving our beautiful planet and if we don’t as a human race make a change, then my daughter being 5 years old, will be the last generation on this planet. Together we have to make the change and not leave it for someone else to take on this responsibility. We will clean up this planet, one bag at a time” – says Sean